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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The early telegraph had trouble functioning under what conditions?
(a) Sunny skies.
(b) Migratory seasons.
(c) Fog and rain.
(d) Overuse.

2. Schrodinger and others theorized that genes had what role in life?
(a) They are a kind of marker for cell multification.
(b) They are a kind of code for constructing an human cells.
(c) They are a kind of code for identifying an organism.
(d) They are a kind of code for constructing an organism.

3. How are memes replicated?
(a) In response to disease.
(b) Through cloning.
(c) Through imitation.
(d) Through the maturation process.

4. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?
(a) The telegram.
(b) The Differential Analyzer.
(c) The difference engine.
(d) The CAT scan.

5. "Entropy" was first used by what individual to describe the unavailability of energy?
(a) Galileo Galilei.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Rudolph Clausius.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were telegraph messages priced?

2. What two disciplines of science were forced together by DNA?

3. What culture was the first to use a written language?

4. How did Gregory Chaitin define random numbers?

5. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?

(see the answer key)

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